Author : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393058147
A great samurai and a beautiful poet fall in love in a novel that captures medieval Japan in breathtaking detail. The heartbreaking story of their renewed love is fraught by the Japanese concept of "mono no aware"--life's ephemeral nature--that weighs on the lovers.